2019 Burges High School Graduation

More than 330 students received their diploma during the 60th commencement exercises of Burges High School during a solemn ceremony at the Don Haskins Center on May 25, 2019. The graduation included students from the Burges Early College, who have earned an associate’s degree and a high-school diploma simultaneously. Burges’ Class of 2019 earned more than $10 million in scholarships and funding for post-secondary education. The class valedictorian is Nicholas Lopez, who will study engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso; and the salutatorian is Mark Casteel, who will study orthodontics at New Mexico State University. (Leonel Monroy, Jr./El Paso ISD)